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Meeting My Treaty Kin

A Journey toward Reconciliation

UBC Press, On Point Press

This intimate story of one settler’s journey toward reconciliation reveals the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change – decolonization not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time.

  • Publication year: 2023
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Drink in the Summer

A Memoir of Croatia

Athabasca University Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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The Fire Still Burns

Life In and After Residential School

UBC Press, Purich Books

The Fire Still Burns is a tale of survival and redemption through which Squamish Elder Sam George recounts his residential school experience and how it led to a life of addiction, violence, and imprisonment until he found the courage to face his past and begin healing.

  • Publication year: 2023
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A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Publication year: 2023
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Indigiqueerness

A Conversation about Storytelling

Athabasca University Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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The Mysterious Stranger

Universitas Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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Under the Nakba Tree

Athabasca University Press

In this moving memoir, a Palestinian man recalls his childhood in Canada and the struggles he faced at the intersection of indigeneity, national identity, and marginality.

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Charlotte Delbo

A Life Reclaimed

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication year: 2021
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Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

UBC Press

Able to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.

  • Publication year: 2021
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Emergency Deep

Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander

University of Alabama Press
  • Publication year: 2021
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Being a Ballerina

The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life

University Press of Florida
  • Publication year: 2021
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Top To Bottom

A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A witty, practical and insightful memoir and guide to the emotional and physical journey of having phalloplasty.

  • Publication year: 2021
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Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution!

The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A picture book about the trans women of colour who started an LGBTQ+ revolution.

  • Publication year: 2020
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This Way Back

West Virginia University Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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rough house

a memoir

Oregon State University Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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The World through the Dime Store Door

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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Caroline's Dilemma

A Colonial Inheritance Saga

UBC Press

This extraordinary book skillfully blends diverse historical evidence to tell the harrowing story of Caroline Kearney and her struggles against the paternalistic inheritance laws of the nineteenth century colonial world.

  • Publication year: 2020
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Stone Motel

Memoirs of a Cajun Boy

University Press of Mississippi

Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.

  • Publication year: 2020
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XOXY

A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This provocative and life-affirming memoir, by one of the world's foremost intersex activists, charts the author's journey from discovering she is intersex through to self-acceptance and becoming an international human rights defender, and the impact this has had on her personal and family life.

  • Publication year: 2020
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The Shoe Boy

A Trapline Memoir

UBC Press, Purich Books

The Shoe Boy is an evocative exploration of Indigenous identity and connection to the land, expressed in guise of a unique coming-of-age memoir set on a trapline in northern Quebec.

  • Publication year: 2020
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